Athletics at the 1962 Asian Games

Athletics was contested at the 1962 Asian Games at the Senayan Main Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia from 25 to 30 August.

Athletics at the 1962 Asian Games
Venue	Senayan Main Stadium
Dates	25–30 August

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Mohammad Sarengat  Indonesia	10.5	Mani Jegathesan  Malaya	10.6	Rogelio Onofre  Philippines	10.7
200 m	Mani Jegathesan  Malaya	21.3 GR	Hideo Iijima  Japan	21.5	Mohammad Sarengat  Indonesia	21.6
400 m	Milkha Singh  India	46.9	Makhan Singh  India	47.5	Kimitada Hayase  Japan	48.3
800 m	Mamoru Morimoto  Japan	1:52.6	Daljit Singh  India	1:52.6	Amrit Pal  India	1:53.4
1500 m	Mohinder Singh  India	3:48.6 GR	Amrit Pal  India	3:50.1	Satsuo Iwashita  Japan	3:51.5
5000 m	Mubarak Shah  Pakistan	14:27.2 GR	Saburo Yokomizo  Japan	14:30.2	Tarlok Singh  India	14:31.4
10,000 m	Tarlok Singh  India	30:21.4 GR	Teruo Funai  Japan	30:21.6	Gurnam Singh  Indonesia	30:47.2
110 m hurdles	Mohammad Sarengat  Indonesia	14.3 GR	Ghulam Raziq  Pakistan	14.3 =GR	Hirokazu Yasuda  Japan	14.4
400 m hurdles	Keiji Ogushi  Japan	52.2 GR	Keiki Iijima  Japan	52.4	Karu Selvaratnam  Malaya	53.4
3000 m steeplechase	Mubarak Shah  Pakistan	8:57.8 GR	Saburo Yokomizo  Japan	8:58.8	Zenji Okuzawa  Japan	9:09.6
4 × 100 m relay	Philippines Remegio Vista Isaac Gomez Claro Pellosis Rogelio Onofre	41.3	Japan Hideo Iijima Kiyoshi Asai Takeo Tamura Takayuki Okazaki	41.5	Malaya Mani Jegathesan V. Vijiaratnam Shahrudin Mohd Ali Thor Gim Soon	41.5
4 × 400 m relay	India Daljit Singh Jagdish Singh Makhan Singh Milkha Singh	3:10.2 GR	Malaya Mani Jegathesan Karu Selvaratnam Abdul Rahim Ahmad Victor Asirvatham	3:13.8	Japan Kimitada Hayase Keiji Ogushi Mamoru Morimoto Keiki Iijima	3:14.6
Marathon	Masayuki Nagata  Japan	2:34:54.2	Muhammad Yusaf  Pakistan	2:43:02.0	Myitung Naw  Burma	2:49:57.1
High jump	Kuniyoshi Sugioka  Japan	2.08 GR	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam  Ceylon	1.98	Ciriaco Baronda  Philippines	1.95
Pole vault	Hisao Morita  Japan	4.40 GR	Kuniaki Yamazaki  Japan	4.40 =GR	Allah Ditta  Pakistan	4.10
Long jump	Takayuki Okazaki  Japan	7.41	Kaihei Oda  Japan	7.36	Awang Papilaya  Indonesia	7.25
Triple jump	Koji Sakurai  Japan	15.57	Tomio Ota  Japan	15.37	Awang Papilaya  Indonesia	14.70
Shot put	Teruo Itokawa  Japan	15.57 GR	Dinshaw Irani  India	14.99	Joginder Singh  India	14.91
Discus throw	Shozo Yanagawa  Japan	47.71 GR	Parduman Singh Brar  India	47.01	Shohei Kaneko  Japan	46.21
Hammer throw	Noboru Okamoto  Japan	63.88 GR	Takeo Sugawara  Japan	61.66	Muhammad Iqbal  Pakistan	59.18
Javelin throw	Takashi Miki  Japan	74.56 GR	Muhammad Nawaz  Pakistan	74.16	Hideta Kanai  Japan	70.68
Decathlon	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa  India	6739	Shosuke Suzuki  Japan	6195	Cyril Perera  Malaya	5575

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Mona Sulaiman  Philippines	11.8 GR	Ikuko Yoda  Japan	12.3	Takako Inokuchi  Japan	12.3
200 m	Mona Sulaiman  Philippines	24.5	Haruko Yamazaki  Japan	25.7	Nirmala Dissanayake  Ceylon	25.8
800 m	Chizuko Tanaka  Japan	2:18.2 GR	Ryuko Hirano  Japan	2:18.4	Soewatini  Indonesia	2:20.8
80 m hurdles	Ikuko Yoda  Japan	11.5	Francisca Sanopal  Philippines	11.9	Kiyoko Shimada  Japan	11.9
4 × 100 m relay	Philippines Aida Molinos Francisca Sanopal Inocencia Solis Mona Sulaiman	48.6 =GR	Japan Haruko Yamazaki Takako Inokuchi Kiyoko Shimada Ikuko Yoda	48.6 =GR	Indonesia Soeratmi Ernawati Tomasoa Wiewiek Machwijar	50.5
High jump	Kinuko Tsutsumi  Japan	1.60 GR	Myint Myint Aye  Burma	1.50	Shared silver
			Tiparpan Leenasean  Thailand
Long jump	Sachiko Kishimoto  Japan	5.75	Fumiko Ito  Japan	5.71	Maureen Ann Lee  Malaya	5.31
Shot put	Seiko Obonai  Japan	14.04 GR	Yasuko Matsuda  Japan	13.71	Mona Sulaiman  Philippines	11.97
Discus throw	Keiko Murase  Japan	45.90 GR	Seiko Obonai  Japan	40.98	Josephine de la Viña  Philippines	37.79
Javelin throw	Hiroko Sato  Japan	48.15 GR	Fujie Abe  Japan	47.34	Elizabeth Davenport  India	44.82

Medal table

Athletics at the 1962 Asian Games on a stamp of Indonesia

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	19	9	46
2	India (IND)	5	5	4	14
3	Philippines (PHI)	4	1	4	9
4	Pakistan (PAK)	2	3	2	7
5	Indonesia (INA)	2	0	6	8
6	Malaya (MAL)	1	2	4	7
7	Burma (BIR)	0	1	1	2
	Ceylon (CEY)	0	1	1	2
9	Thailand (THA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (9 entries)		32	33	31	96

References

• Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Women's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Men's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.